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Rethinking Kink: Sadomasochism as Serious Leisure

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Sociology, June 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#25 of 385)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
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Citations

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135 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
Title
Rethinking Kink: Sadomasochism as Serious Leisure
Published in
Qualitative Sociology, June 2010
DOI 10.1007/s11133-010-9158-9
Authors

Staci Newmahr

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 4%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Unknown 126 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 21%
Student > Bachelor 28 21%
Researcher 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 18 13%
Unknown 18 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 53 39%
Social Sciences 35 26%
Arts and Humanities 11 8%
Engineering 3 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 21 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 April 2024.
All research outputs
#1,186,371
of 25,827,956 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Sociology
#25
of 385 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,524
of 105,388 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Sociology
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,827,956 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 385 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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